on Civil Rights. He was the
first black man to "officially" play in the big leagues in the 20th century. He possessed
enormous physical talent and had fierce determination to succeed. Jackie Robinson went
through his ten year career facing racial

the soul of the self. To deny any stigma, one would oblige to refute integrity. Ultimately, the catharsis of this must be the rationalization that, to quote the bible, ?every man [or woman] falls short.? No human is perfect. People often assume that

considered, the mere deliberation of this draws close to impossibility. Identity is malleable. Cosmetics can be a simple change; both trans- sexuality and race modification are a tad more extreme venues of expression. Unfortunately, the populace

are two of the major subordinate groups in America today. They face many forms of oppression from the dominant group and have many things in common when it comes to this oppression.
I would like to focus on five specific types of oppression

and "severe and inhumaine beatings" all caused because of the belief of white supremecy all started in 1866. A social club called the Ku Klux Klan was formed in 1866 by six young Confederate war veterans in Tennessee. This soical club for white supremici

years. In today's society where differences between people are magnified and everyone is discussing diversity, tensions between different groups are remarkably high. The extreme of this tension is brought out in hate groups. Hate groups play off of

speaker and leader. He was also a distinguished campaigner for racial equality and African American rights. Although, amongst some people, he was considered a nurtured racist. Growing up in a world with racism directed at him all the time, Malcolm X

slaves. Unlike Frederick Douglass, she was not taken away from her parents when she was born. Her parents tried to make their home as normal as possible. They succeeded for a long period of time. Harriet didn't know that she was a slave until

the Renaissance there was a need for reformation. This, which is now, called the Protestant Reformation. During these times a lot was done to make the churches more religious. Martin Luther and John Calvin were the major leaders of the Reformation. To

initiators of the civil rights movement, which lasted until the 1960's. Washington was born in 1857 into slavery. His slave master's wife thought he was very smart and she began to tutor him. After slavery was abolished, he attended a university